Article of apparel usable as dickey or as head covering



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ARTICLE OF APPAREL USABLE AS DICKEY OR AS HEAD COVERING A Filed April 24, 1967 "fl a;

r/'e d m a n INVEN TORS /Vaf Gar-er United States Patent O 3,449,766 ARTICLE F APPAREL USABLE AS DI'CKEY 0R AS HEAD COVERING Nat Garber, 46-29 217th St., Bayside, N.Y. 11364, and

Sidney Friedman, 144-45 76th Road, Kew Gardens,

Filed Apr. 24, 1967, Ser. No. 633,022 Int. Cl. A41d 23/ 00, J/04 U.S. Cl. 2-196 6 Claims ABSTRACT 0F THE DISCLOSURE The present invention relates to an article of apparel and, more particularly, to a multiple purpose article of apparel and, specifically to a knitted article of apparel that may be optionally used either as a dickey or as a head covering or hat.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an article of apparel, of the character described, which may be simply and easily converted from dickey to head covering and vice-Versa, from head covering to dickey.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an article of apparel, 'of the character` described, which is of relatively simple construction and is strong and durable.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide an article of apparel, of the character described, which may be worn with comfort when used for either of its two purposes.

The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the article of apparel of the present invention will become more readily apparent to those skilled in the art from the embodiments thereof shown in the accompanying drawings and from the description following. It is to be understood, however, that such embodiments are shown by way of illustration only, to make the practice and principles of the invention more readily comprehensible and without any intent of limiting the invention to the specific details shown therein.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is an elevational view of one embodiment of the article of apparel of the present invention; partly broken away to illustrate structure details;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational View of the same;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the article of the invention worn as a dickey;

FIG. 4 is a side elevational view showing the article worn as a head covering;

FIG. 5 is a section taken on line 5 5 of FIG. 4; and

FIG. 6 is an enlarged, fragmentary view of the inner surface of the tubular portion of the article.

Referring now, in greater detail, to the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawings, the same is shown to comprise a substantially tubular portion, generally designated as 10, which is of a circumference substantially adequate to t comfortably about the neck of a person who is to wear it, and of a height sufficient for it to be folded over on itself to form a turtle-neck type of collar, 12, around the neck of the wearer. Tubular portion 10 is elastically knitted for stretching radially, such as longitudinally rib-knitted, in a manner well known, so that it is expensible when folded over, to a circumference suflicient to fit comfortably, as in a headband, 14, around the head of a wearer.

Tubular portion 10 is formed with an apron-like extension, 16, extending from one of its edges on approximately half of its circumference, said extension being of a length sucient to form a dickey, 18, across the chest of the wearer (FIG. 3). A relatively shorter, skirt-like extension, 20, is provided on the remainder of said edge. The apron portion 16 is of a length greater than the diameter of portion 10, when in expanded position, and sufficient to extend over the head of a wearer from the 'front to the rear when portion 10 is worn as a headband and to overlap said portion at the rear. Preferably, apron 16 may taper outwardly to substantially a point, 22.

A fastening element, such as a snap fastener element, 24, is provided 0n the inner surface of the dickey extension, at a distance from its extremity 22 not greater than half the height of the tubular portion 10, and a cooperating fastener element, such as a co-operating snap fastener element 26, is secured on the outer surface of the inner half of the tubular portion 10, which faces the inner surface of the outer half of the turtle-neck collar, when worn as such.

It will be understood that apron 16 may be of such length and the fastener element 24 may be so secured thereon that the folded-over portion 10 may be worn as a headband with the extension 16 extending upward so that it may be folded over the wearers head and the fastener elements 24 and 26 secured to one another, to form a covering for the top of the head, with the Skirt portion 20 filling in the spaces at the sides of the head.

In order to prevent the portion 10 from becoming permanently stretched from being worn as a headband, as a result of which it might not properly t around the neck when the article is worn as a dickey, there is incorporated, by knitting, into the longitudinal ribs, 30, of the portion 10, and transversely of said ribs, circumferentially of the portion 10, about midway of its length, and preferably on its inner surface, inherently resilient elastic threads, 32, which will tend to return the portion 10 to its normal, contracted neck-band circumference each time it is removed from use as a headband.

This completes the description of the multiple-purpose article o-f apparel of the present invention. It will be readily apparent that the article of the invention may be readily and easily and quickly adapted from one of its uses to the other; that it is comfortable and convenient to use for either of its purposes; that it is of attractive appearance when used either as a dickey or a head covering; and that it is compact and lightweight and may be conveniently packed or carried in a pocket, ready for use.

It will be further apparent that numerous variations and modifications may be made in the article of apparel of the present invention by anyone skilled in the art, in accordance with the principles of the invention hereinabove set forth, without the exercise of any inventive ingenuity.

What we claim is:

1. A convertible article of apparel of the character described, comprising a circumferentially elastically knit tubular body having open ends and having a normal circumference adapted to fit as a collar around a neck of a wearer and circumferentially expansible to be worn as a head band around the head of the wearer, said tubular body having a tapered elastic extension secured along substantially half the circumference of the edge of one open end and being substantially greater in length than the length of said tubular body extension along part of an edge thereof of a length adapted to form a dickey when said body is worn as a collar and to cover the top of the wearers head when worn as a head band, the connected edge of said extension being expansible with said body for fitting around the head, and longitudinally aline cooperating fastening elements at the free end of the inner surface of said extension and on the outer surface of said body adjacent the inner edge thereof opposite said extension adapted to be interengaged when said body is worn as a head band with said extension overlying the wearers head whereby said extension is held in place as a covering for the wearers head.

2. The article of apparel of claim 1, wherein said tubular body is longitudinally rib knitted.

3. The article of apparel of claim 2, wherein said tubular body is of a length adapted to be folded over on itself to form a turtle neck collar when worn as dickey and a doubled thickness head band when worn as a head covering.

4. The article of apparel of claim 3, wherein elastic threads are knitted circumferentially 0n said body transversely of said ribs, said elastic threads adapted to be stretched to head band size and to contract to collar size.

5. The article of apparel of claim 4, wherein said elastic threads are knitted into said body at approximately the midpoint of its length and are adapted to define a foldline for said body.

6. The article of apparel of claim 1, wherein a shorter extension is connected to said edge of said body along the remainder of the circumference thereof.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 860,749 7/ 1907 Kahn. 1,445,981 2/1923 Strauss 2--172 2,415,250 2/1947 La Belle 2-198 2,820,227 1/1958 Wiener 2-201 XR 3,287,737 11/ 1966 Schuessler 2-201 XR JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

G. H. KRIZMANICH, Assistant Examiner.

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